Downing v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2015
2 district · 14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Banegura v. Taylor · Marburg v. Cole · Alexander v. Boyer · Eder v. Rothamel · Wolf v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purposes of this case, the crucial distinction between a joint tenancy and a tenancy in common is the right of survivorship identified with a joint tenancy. Therefore, if we determine that a joint tenancy was created, the family farm passes to John [Robert Downing] as surviving joint tenant. If we find that a joint tenancy was not created, the deed establishes merely a tenancy in common and Helen’s interest in the family farm will become part of her estate.” (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Bikle““Joint tenancy means that each joint tenant owns an undivided share in the whole estate, has an equal right to possess, use, and enjoy the property, and has the right of survivorship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Bikle“crucial distinction between a joint tenancy and a tenancy in common is the right of survivorship identified with a joint tenancy.” Downing, 326 Md. at 475 , 606 A.2d 208 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.